Jolyon makes a mess of it (again)

Oh dear. It seems that Britain’s favourite kimono-wearing, fox-murdering, bat-wielding loudmouth lawyer has done it again. The Conservative party is shaping up for a leadership contest between the most diverse range of candidates ever, including five MPs from ethnic minority backgrounds (Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch, Rishi Sunak, Nadhim Zahawi and Sajid Javid). There are also four women (Braverman, Badenoch, Liz Truss and Penny Mordaunt) –  more than the prospective number of straight white men (Tom Tugendhat, Ben Wallace and Jeremy Hunt).

But that’s not enough for Jolyon Maugham, the right-on Remainiac best known for losing cases and killing foxes. The one-man pest control unit – known as the ‘Babe Ruth of the bar’ –  has decided to display his right-on credentials by weighing in on the Tory party race. Maugham responded to Rishi Sunak’s launch video yesterday by asking snidely ‘Do you think the members of your party are ready to select a brown man, Rishi?’ Such, er, insight does ignore the fact that Sunak has spent the last two-and-a-half years holding the second highest political office in the land and regularly leading membership polls for the most popular minister in the cabinet.

After an outcry, Maugham, the fearless hero that he is, opted to delete the tweet but claimed he would take ‘no lectures’ from a party led by that irredeemable racist Boris Johnson.